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With the breakthrough by Baker and Shevardnadze in an arms-control effort that began in Vienna way back in 1973 as the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks, the CSCE summit is firmly set. The completed arms treaty will be signed by the U.S., the Soviet Union and their allies. They will then turn their attention to launching a new security organization...
...months the U.S. had insisted that the conventional-forces agreement had to be completed before convening the proposed summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), scheduled to open in Paris on Nov. 19. That condition has essentially been met. The provisional agenda for the summit was drafted at still another meeting in New York City last week, involving 35 ministers and ambassadors in two days of talks. (Since the session took place before Germany unified, the East German Minister for Education and Sciences, Hans-Joachim Meyer, attended...
...height of detente -- to sign a nonbinding declaration of principles focused on nonaggression, human rights and economic cooperation. Since then, there have been three review conferences, but CSCE has never acquired a staff or even a mailing address. The foreign ministers agreed last week that the Paris summit should establish a permanent CSCE secretariat and create a conflict-resolution center to exchange information on military activities and possibly mediate disputes...
With a kind of multipurpose consensus developing, prospects for the Paris summit are looking up. There seems to be a role for CSCE in addition to NATO, the European Community and other existing organizations. If, with 34 equal members, CSCE in fact turns out to be little more than a talk shop, that might not be so terrible either. One of the felicities of post-cold war Europe is that many of its problems can now be settled by talking...
...argued that the economic pressures caused by the Iraqi invasion made getting the deficit under control more important than ever. He envisioned reconvening the negotiators after Labor Day and cutting a deal in time for an announcement on Sept. 12, after Bush returned to Washington from a speedily arranged summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev...